From: Ruairķ Newman (bofh at domain tech-mad.org)
Date: Mon 03 Sep 2001 - 16:51:32 IST
Thanks Kevin,
kevin lyda [03/09/01 16:35 +0100]:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 04:22:57PM -0400, Ruairi Newman wrote:
> > Been receiving many e-mails lately from people who use MS-Outlook and don't
> > want to disable html in their settings for various reasons.
>
> this is why i'd love an editor that would spew out troff. reply to
> them with that editor and then say, "well it works on my system - what
> version of groff are you running?" when they ask wtf i just sent them
>
Should be possible using vi as your mutt editor... you can set the
commandline with which to call it from within your .muttrc... hmm... might
try that myself ;)
> > For archival purposes I want to strip the html part from all incoming mails
> > and am wondering if anyone has a regexp they're already using for this
> > purpose that I can put put into a procmail rule to assist? Otherwise I'll
> > cobble something together myself.
>
> you'd want to strip it before you see it? you might be able to use sed
> or something. or i'm sure there are perl modules for playing with mime.
> seems like it might accidentally nuke stuff you want though.
>
Thats exactly what I want to do. Am working on something with sed at the
moment but it has a nasty habit of sometimes nuking the plaintext part of the
mail instead. I don't know perl well enough to use it and unfortunately
don't have the time to learn it these days. As for nuking stuff I want...
that happens from time to time anyway... I use an aggressive spamfilter.
> if you want to see it first, you can delete attachments in mail you've
> received. hilite the mail, press v, hilite the attachment you want to
> nuke, press d. more labor intensive, but possibly safer. you might
> even be able to implement it as a macro - if the html is always in the
> same position.
>
I wasn't actually aware you could delte attachments in that manner if you can
believe that ;) but it'll be handy for the moment as a stopgap til I manage
to get a reliable automated alternative running, thanks,
Regards,
Ruairi
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